Redact PDFs

Permanently delete sensitive text from PDFs โ€” without uploading them anywhere.

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Connected โ€” privacy mode available

You don't need the internet. Disconnect and watch the tool work.

Online

๐Ÿ”’ Verify the privacy claim yourself

The simplest way to confirm your files never leave this device:

Disconnect from the internet.

Turn off your Wi-Fi โ†’ the tool keeps working. The banner up top turns green.

Why this works: the tool is JavaScript + WebAssembly that runs entirely in your browser. There is no upload step. Open DevTools โ†’ Network and watch โ€” no file ever leaves.

๐Ÿ”’ Verify it yourself: turn off your Wi-Fi, add your PDF and start redacting. Your PDFs never leave your device.
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Drop a PDF or click "Open PDF" above Drag on the page to mark areas to redact. Click Apply & Download to permanently remove the underlying text and download the redacted PDF.

Why this is different

A black box is not redaction

Drawing a black rectangle with a markup or annotation tool doesn't actually remove the text underneath โ€” it's still there, selectable, copy-pasteable. Ask Paul Manafort's lawyers, who exposed sealed information this way in 2018. We use a true Redact step that physically deletes the text from the PDF.

Nothing leaves your device

Every other "online redaction" tool โ€” including Redactable, Sejda, Smallpdf, and Adobe's cloud features โ€” uploads your sensitive PDFs to a server. That's the opposite of confidential. We run entirely in your browser. Turn off Wi-Fi and watch it still work.

Free and unlimited

Adobe Acrobat Pro is $23/mo. Foxit PhantomPDF is $129/yr. Redactable charges per document. We're free โ€” no account, no install, no per-page fee. The cost of trust shouldn't be a subscription.

HIPAA-friendly by design

Because your documents never touch our servers, there's nothing for us to leak, subpoena, or lose. Compliance teams reject SaaS vendors over data-residency questions all the time. With us, the question doesn't exist.

How we compare

Ours Adobe Acrobat Foxit PhantomPDF Redactable Online tools
Files stay on your deviceโœ“ VerifiableCloud features uploadโœ“ Desktop onlyUploadsUploads
True content-stream removalโœ“โœ“โœ“โœ“Often visual cover only
FreeUnlimited$23/mo$129/yr$10โ€“$30/moOften with watermarks
No account / no installโœ“Adobe ID + appSoftware installAccount requiredVaries
Works offline after loadโœ“Partialโœ“NoNo

Turn off your Wi-Fi. It still works.

That's how you know nothing ever leaves your device.

Adobe's cloud features, Foxit, Redactable, every online "free" redactor โ€” they all let your sensitive PDFs touch a server at some point. We don't. Run the test yourself.